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YAWCOB'S  DRIBULATIONS 


BY 

YAWCOB    STRAUSS 

(CHARLES  POLLEN  ADAMS.) 


L.   PRANG  &  Co. 

BOSTON,    MASS.,    U.  S.  A. 


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Maybe  dot  you   don'd   rememper, 

Eighdeen     -  dwendy  years  ago, 
How   I  dold  aboudt  mine  Yawcob  — 

Dot  young  rashkell,  don'd  you   know, 
Who  got  schicken-box  uncl   measles; 

Filled   mine  bipe   rnit    Limburg  scheeze; 
Cut   mine  cane  up  indo  dl^/um-schticks, 

Und   blay  all   sooch   dricks  as  dhese. 
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Veil!  dhose  times  dhey  vas  been   ofer, 

Und  dot  son   off  mine,   py  shings! 
Now  vas  taller  as  hees  fader, 

Und  vas  oup  to  all   sooch  dhings 
Like  shimnastic  dricks  und   pase  pall; 

Und  der  oder  day   he  say 
Dot   he  boxes  mit  "  adthledics," 

Somevheres  ofer  on*  Back   Bay. 


Times  vas  deeferent,  now,   I  dold  you, 

As  vhen  he  vas  been   a  lad; 
Dhen   Katrine  she  make  hees  drowsers 

Vrom  der  oldt  vones  off  hees  dad  ; 
Dhey  vas  cut   so  full   und   baggy 

Dot  id   dook   more  as  a  fool 
To  find  oudt  eef  he   vas  going, 

Or  vas  coming  home   vrom  school. 


Now,  dhere  vas  no  making  ofer 

Off  mine  clothes  to  make  a  suit 
For  dot   poy-  -  der  times  vas  sc hanged  ; 

k  Der  leg  vas  on  der  oder  boot"; 
For  vhen   hees  drowsers  dhey  gets  dhin, 

Und  sort  off  "  schlazy .'    roundt  der  knee, 
Dot   Mrs.   Strauss  she  dake  der  sceessors 

Und   she  cuts  dhem   down   for  me. 


Shust  der  oder  day  dot  Yawcob 

Gife  me  von  elecdric  shock, 
Vhen  he  say  he  vants  fife-hundord 

To  invesht  in  railroadt  schtock. 
Dhen   I  dell  him   id  vas  beddher 

Dot  he  leaf  der  schtocks  alone, 
Or  some  feller  dot  vos  schmardter 

Dake  der  meat  und   leaf  der  bone, 


Und  vhen   I   vas  got  excited, 

Und  say  he  get  "  schwipecT    und  fooled, 
Dhen   he  say  he  haf  a  "  pointer" 

Vrom  soom  friendts  off  Sage  und   Gould  ; 
Und   dot  he  vas  on  "  rock  bottom  " ; 

Had  der  "inside  track"  on  u  Atch  — " 
Dot  vas  too  mooch  for  hees  fader, 

Und   I  coom   oup  to  der  scratch. 


Dhen  in  bolitics  he  dabbles, 

Und  all  qvesdions,  great  und  schmall, 
Make  no  deeferent  to  dot  Yawcob  - 

For  dot  poy  he  knows  id  all. 
Und   he  say  dot  dhose  oldt  fogies 

Must  be  laid   oup  on   der  shelf, 
Und   der  governors  und   mayors 

Should   pe  young  men-    -like   himself. 


Yell  !     I  vish   I  vas  dransborted 

To  dhose  days  off  long  ago, 
Vhen  dot  schafer  beat  der  milk-ban, 

Und  schkydoodled  droo  der  schnow. 
I  could  schtand  der  mumbs  und  measles, 

Und  der  ruckshuns  in  der  house; 
Budt  mine  presendt  dribulations 

Vas  too  mooch  for   Meester  Strauss. 


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